Word: szepingkai
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...Manchuria, the Government had 150,000 of its best regular troops, many of them trained and equipped by the U.S. for fighting Japs. They were strong enough to batter the Reds away from the rail lines at Szepingkai this month in a major engagement. But the Government was not getting much out of what it held of Manchuria. The big coal mines were shut down; the harvest could not be moved over transport lines broken by Communists...
Meanwhile Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop reported: "Intelligence has just reached Washington from Manchuria . . . that among the dead left by the Chinese forces on the battlefield of Szepingkai, a great many were Soviet volunteers...
...conferences, Communists and Nationalists fought fiercely to consolidate local positions in Manchuria before the General's pacifying personal prestige could still their guns. A 40,000-man Chinese Communist army blasted the small Nationalist garrison out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital, and halted a relief column near Szepingkai, 70 miles away. Near Nationalist-held Mukden, the Communist-led United Democratic Army ambushed Lieut. General Chao Kung-wu's 25th Division, turned it back from the coal-and-bauxite-rich city of Penki (Penhsihu) new Communist provisional capital for Liaoning province...